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Meanwhile, in the wooded high country above Innsbruck, Vermont Farm Boy Bill Koch, 20, stunned the European cross-country establishment by finishing second in the 30-km. marathon...
...case shines almost brightly in such a context. The huge company (1974 sales: $16.5 billion) last year admitted that it had paid $12.3 million to politicians in the U.S. and elsewhere, most of it from a secret slush fund (TIME, Dec. 8). In response, Gulfs board convened for a marathon session that in many ways had elements of a two-act courtroom drama. Act I opened on a Monday afternoon. Twelve of the 14 directors gathered in the walnut-paneled board room on the 31st floor in Gulfs headquarters tower in Pittsburgh...
...that "marathon" as the race of 1948 is affectionately dubbed, was on the lips of all who can remember that far back, as the city council adjourned after its 21 unsuccessful attempts to elect a mayor for the 1976-77 session...
...settled before the end of the month, or whether it will grind on into April, depends largely on the behind-the-scenes caucuses. But even if they do keep balloting until April, they'll be able to transact their regular business without interference. It was only after the marathon session of '48 that the council agreed that it could move other business before it found a new mayor. During that long winter of '48, while the council fished for a mayor, it "couldn't do anything," Crane remembers, "except maybe pass an order for an emergency snow removal...
...worked as a carhop in drive-in theaters owned by her parents. A native of Indiana, she was named after a Midwestern pig-calling contestant known as Twila. "My mother thought Twyla would look good on a theater marquee," explains Tharp. Her ambitious mother also laid out a marathon course of piano, violin, viola, drum, baton-twirling, ballet and tap-dancing lessons that occupied Tharp's childhood. It all paid...